The Game Archaeologist and the Asheron Recall: The highlights
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, MMO industry, The Game Archaeologist It's hard being the youngest child -- you get the hand-me-downs, suffer through swirlies by older siblings, and eventually...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist and the Asheron Recall: Player sagas
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Interviews, The Game Archaeologist It's an odd thing to realize how far MMOs have come right in front of our eyes in a relatively short span of time. After all,...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist's chat with Andy Cataldo
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Interviews, The Game Archaeologist There are only a handful of people in the world who can boast that they're working on an MMO that dates back to the '90s. As...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist and the Asheron Recall: Fond memories
Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Asheron's Call, The Game Archaeologist Has October blown by already in a rush of leaves, wind and high-fructose corn syrup candies? Are we already staring down the grim...
View ArticleAsheron's Call rolls out December content update
Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, Asheron's Call, Patches, News items Turbine may be the king of freemium themeparks these days, but once upon a time it actually developed sandbox MMORPGs....
View ArticleThe Perfect Ten: Best non-traditional MMO fantasy races
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Dungeons and Dragons Online, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Ultima Online, Guild Wars 2, Humor, Allods Online,...
View ArticleAsheron's Call teases May event
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Events, in-game, Patches While Asheron's Call players have a while yet to wait to get their hands on new playable races, Turbine has a bright shiny ray of good...
View ArticleMMObility: Fifty games for the mobile lifestyle
Filed under: Anarchy Online, Asheron's Call, Wurm Online, Opinion, Free-to-play, Browser, Casual, Free Realms, MMObility I like lists. Lists help keep my candy-coated brain functioning. I see so many...
View ArticleThe Perfect Ten: Non-vanilla server rulesets
Filed under: Age of Conan, Asheron's Call, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Darkfall, Dofus, EVE Online, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Fallen Earth, Lord of the Rings Online, Ultima Online, Vanguard,...
View ArticleDirecting the devs for a day in Asheron's Call
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, MMO industry, Patches, Sandbox Turbine may be best-known to modern MMO gamers for its F2P games Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online, but...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The highlights
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Classes, Expansions, The Game Archaeologist MMO sequels are funny animals. Sequels (along with prequels and "reimaginings") are ingrained into the entertainment...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The fansite managers
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Interviews, The Game Archaeologist, Post-Apocalyptic Back when I covered Asheron's Call for The Game Archaeologist, I got an impassioned email from a former...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The former dev
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Expansions, MMO industry, The Game Archaeologist I've been a long-time follower of Eric Heimburg on his blog, Elder Game, where he and a friend have spent years...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist answers Asheron's Call 2: The community
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Culture, Opinion, The Game Archaeologist Time machines are expensive, and with gas the price it is today, it's not always viable to fuel up your DeLorean and...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist salutes Asheron's Call's 12th anniversary
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Events, real-world, Expansions, The Game Archaeologist Turning 12 is a wake-up call for most people because they realize that next year they will officially be...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist seals up 2011
Filed under: A Tale in the Desert, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, EverQuest, Lineage, Meridian 59, PlanetSide, Shadowbane, Everquest Online Adventures, The Game Archaeologist, Miscellaneous You...
View ArticleThe Perfect Ten: Best MMO theme songs (part two)
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Asheron's Call, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Guild Wars, Sword of the New World, Star Trek Online, Ultima Online, Guild Wars 2, Humor, Runes of Magic, Allods Online, Perfect...
View ArticleAsheron's Call readies radical February revamp
Filed under: Fantasy, Asheron's Call, Game mechanics, MMO industry, News items, Sandbox When you have an MMORPG that's well into its second decade, there's got to be a strong temptation to simply keep...
View ArticleLeaderboard: Ultima Online vs. EverQuest vs. Asheron's Call
Filed under: Polls, Asheron's Call, EverQuest, Culture, Opinion, Ultima Online, Miscellaneous, Leaderboard Back at the turn of the century, you didn't have the equivalent of cable's infinite choices...
View ArticleThe Perfect Ten: Free-to-play holdouts
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, EVE Online, Final Fantasy XI, PlanetSide, Warhammer Online, Ultima Online, Free-to-play, Star Wars: The Old Republic, RIFT, Final...
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